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How"s this for a school project? Skoda"s apprentice students don"t make soda bicarbonate volcanoes or recycled litter collages. They build sporty coupe concept cars. This is the fruit of last term"s homework: the Atero.Funny looking thing, isn"t it? Perhaps it"s just our TG.com brain, unable to reconcile the clearly Skoda Rapid-sired front end with the arcing, dare-we-day BMW X6-like tail. There"s a bit of Honda CRX going on here too.A total of 26 students from Skoda" academy of designers, technicians and other future car industry bods have spent a collective 1700 hours creating the Atero on the platform of a Skoda Rapid, adding the sports exhaust from an Octavia vRS and an 1800-watt, 14-speaker sound system. Not Fast and Furious enough for you? Take a gander at the underbody red neon-glow lighting. On a Skoda.Under the Atero"s bonnet lives nothing more fruity than Skoda"s 1.4-litre turbocharged petrol engine, sending 123bhp (exactly the output of the old Ford Puma, hatch-based-coupe fans), to the front wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox. Ventilated brakes live behind the natty Octavia-pinched alloys.Sure, the silhouette"s a tad boxy, but Skoda could do with a dose of youthful fun in the family now the Fabia vRS has been binned. What do you reckon should the student project graduate to production?Share this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 25 May 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3577
How"s this for a school project? Skoda"s apprentice students don"t make soda bicarbonate volcanoes or recycled litter collages. They build sporty coupe concept cars. This is the fruit of last term"s homework: the Atero.Funny looking thing, isn"t it? Perhaps it"s just our TG.com brain, unable to reconcile the clearly Skoda Rapid-sired front end with the arcing, dare-we-day BMW X6-like tail. There"s a bit of Honda CRX going on here too.A total of 26 students from Skoda" academy of designers, technicians and other future car industry bods have spent a collective 1700 hours creating the Atero on the platform of a Skoda Rapid, adding the sports exhaust from an Octavia vRS and an 1800-watt, 14-speaker sound system. Not Fast and Furious enough for you? Take a gander at the underbody red neon-glow lighting. On a Skoda.Under the Atero"s bonnet lives nothing more fruity than Skoda"s 1.4-litre turbocharged petrol engine, sending 123bhp (exactly the output of the old Ford Puma, hatch-based-coupe fans), to the front wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox. Ventilated brakes live behind the natty Octavia-pinched alloys.Sure, the silhouette"s a tad boxy, but Skoda could do with a dose of youthful fun in the family now the Fabia vRS has been binned. What do you reckon should the student project graduate to production?Share this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 25 May 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3577